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UPDATE:
Rutherford police have issued several summonses to a Clifton trucker and his employer in connection with the death of a driver crushed by a container that fell onto his car on Route 3 earlier this month.

Police also issued summonses for having an unsafe vehicle and hazardous tires to the owner of the 1992 Peterbilt tractor, Parkway Iron & Metal Co. Inc. of Clifton.

James Hart III, 39, of Westchester, was behind the wheel of a 2014 Honda in the westbound highway’s furthest right lane on June 8 when the container hit the Orient Way overpass in the next lane and landed on his car.

Hart was pronounced dead at the scene a little over an hour later.

County authorities haven’t pursued criminal charges following an investigation by the Bergen County Fatal Accident Investigation Unit, leaving it to local police to issue summonses.